JANUARY
Jan. 6. Time launched an exhaustive online archive giving the magazine's readers access to over 266,000 articles from as early as 1923;an invaluable resource for tracking the lineage of, say, Michael Jackson.

By Tony Silber
When 101communications
said in September that its owner, the private-equity firm Frontenac Company, would be selling it, CEO Jeff Klein said he expected the deal to be done by the end of the year.
Now, with a just week to go, he and everybody else close to the deal are saying nothing.

By Dylan Stableford
It was a wild and wooly year for magazines in 2005;though, really, when is it not? The M&A market was hot, magazine metrics were not, e-media emerged, one Stewart returned;the other skewered ;and the requisite launches, relaunches and folds reverberated throughout the industry.

By Dylan Stableford
Primedia Business, the company formerly known as Intertec Publishing, is changing its name once again.
The new name: Prism Business Media Inc.
.
The company had been scouting new names since August, when Primedia sold its business information
unit to Wasserstein & Co. for $385 million in cash. The new entity temporarily held as PBI Media Holdings, Inc.

FOLIO:'s 2005 Art/Production Salary Survey was commissioned by FOLIO:. The survey draws upon Folio:'s and Circulation Management's current subscriber lists as well as prospect lists to represent the publishing industry as broadly as possible. Results are based on 299 responses. About Readex Research:

By Kristina Joukhadar | Circulation Management
US Airways will launch US Airways magazine in January;replacing America West magazine and US Airways' Attache;via custom publishing company Pace Communications
. The change is a result of the recent merger of the two airlines.

Radar
magazine, the pop-politics-gossip-glamour mash-up that had relaunched earlier this year with the $25 million backing of financiers Mort Zuckerman and Jeffrey Epstein, is set to fold. An internal announcement was made late Wednesday to staffers; it appears the current November-December issue, its third since being relaunched, will be its last.

Time Inc. announced a management restructuring, including 105 job cuts and a number of eye-opening executive-level changes, in part of an effort to sustain the kind of growth the publishing powerhouse has been accustomed to.